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GRAPE SEED EXTRAOTOR.

No. 381,657. Patented Apr. 24, 1888.

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GRAPE SEED EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,657, dated April24, 1888.

Application filed February 1B, 1858. Serial No. 264,532. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, SARAH. E. TOUOEY, of the city, county, and StateofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in GrapeSeedExtractors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to aniniprovement in utensils for extracting theseeds from grapes previous to eating them, in which are combined with ahandle a knife for cutting off the tops of the grapes, so as to lay barethe seeds, and a pick for taking out the seeds.

The object of the improvementis to secure the greatest attainableefficiency and convenience in use with simplicity and presents. bility;and to this end the invention consists of a utensil constructed andadapted for use substantially as hereinafter described and as claimed.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a utensil embodying my il'nprovenient.Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the same on the line a; (c, Fig. 1.

The grape seed extractor A is by preference cutand stamped from a singlethin piece of hard metal, and is formed with a tapering handle, 13,terminating in a neck, 0, a sharppointcd pick, 1), and a sharp-edgedcuttinghlade, E. The sharp point D of the pick D is in line with thehandle, and the pick is widened about evenly from both the neck 0 andits point D to its middle. The upper and lower faces of the pick areflat, except at the middle, where the metal is depressed to form aterminating groove, F, in its top. The cuttingbladc projects from theside edge of the fiat pick, its sharpened outer edge, E, vanishing by agradual curve in the corresponding edge of the neck 0, and its pointedextremity E forking out from the pick a short distance .within the pointD thereof to avoid interference with the proper use of said point.

Vith this utensil the top of the grape can be quickly sliced oft by thecutting-blade E, so as to uncover the grape seeds, and by introducingthe fiat-pointed pick beneath the seeds they can be readily received inthegroove F and removed without destroying the edible part of the grape.

Having thus described my invention, what claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A grape-seed extractor consisting of a handle, a fiat-pointed pickhavingagroove in its upper face, and a. lateral cutting-blade,substantially. as described.

2. A grape-seed extractor consisting of a handle, a flat pick having asharpened pointon its end in line with the handle and a groove in itstop face, and a cutting-hladeprojecting laterally from the pick, and itspoint forking out therefrom a short distance within the point of thepick, substantially as described.

SARAH E. TOUOEY.

Witnesses:

CLARE-NOE L. BURGER, G. Senewrcn.

